US Open 2024 - Iga Swiatek : "Hateful messages... We have to try to educate people"

Published: Aug 29, 2024 Duration: 00:02:36 Category: Sports

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[Music] a few players have spoken about online abuse hateful messages that they get how do you think gambling has contributed to that and do you see messages from gamblers after matches about the match you've just played well it happened a couple of times but I got to say that um I'm not I'm not you know uh going to my other inbox I'm only kind of seeing the messages from my close ones the ones that I already accepted so but for sure um there is a lot of hate and um mostly I'm you know trying to be in Internet and little avoid that a little bit you know so uh how much gambling I mean I don't know the statistics um I've never made you know research about it but for sure um people are really emotional when it comes to you know winning or losing money so um it it has probably big impact but I don't know I can't tell you like in numbers uh I think it's it's kind of easy to check but um but yeah for sure you know it's not easy for us players and it would be nice if um we can kind of do more as Caro did for example and kind of try to educate people and also maybe in the future have some solutions as you know using AI to um make it safer for us um because it's not I feel like we can't be on the internet and feel like um feel kind of safe anymore you know you have to really be careful on what you're reading who you're following and yeah and what do you think of what the tour is doing to try to combat this well um what the tour is doing I mean I know that there are some tools that for example r g offered for us like this app we can have on our phone and it's going to block the hateful messages and um it's going to also kind of learn uh with you when you're going to Tex some messages as like hateful or comments you know um and I'm I'm always kind of saying that this is this is really nice and um and my team also has been kind of looking on uh in my case what kind of messages has been have been blocked or not you know uh when we're using this app and it would be nice if we had like more opportunities to use these kind of tools cuz um um it's always some kind of a help

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